by Hans Johnson
Fasotec, a medical engineering firm based in Tokyo, Japan provides expectant parents 3D plastic models of the face of their baby taken from 3D ultrasounds. The process costs about $500.
Here is a CNN report:
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I would pay twice that Hans. This is great innovation and one that enhances humanity so much.
Doesn’t look like a blob of tissue to me!
Preborn human beings have faces?????
NO WAY!!!!
We need to be careful about this though. Yes, it’s very cool, yes, it helps humanize the unborn. Unfortunately to make such models the babe must be subjected to an extensive 3D ultrasound, longer than for your standard ‘cute pic’ opertunity. 3D ultrasounds, while very cool, have never be actually *tested* on babies, inutero or otherwise. Just like standard ultrasound was never actually tested for safety on inutero babies. Now many years later initial studies as showing babies subjected to repeat ultrasounds have a higher risk for several things-although so far relatively minor things-and 3d scans are much more consentrated, and take longer, than standard ultrasounds. Things of this nature, without slowing down and actually doing safety testing, places babies in harm’s way, exactly the opposite of what we’re trying to accomplish. And this is not ‘fringe’, even mainstream obstetrics have warned against unnecessary 3d ultrasounds or untrained scanners.
Do you have any links I could read about that Jespren?
I have quite a few pregnant friends right now.
Carla, most of my pregnancy and childbirth stuff is actually hard copy, not links, and a pregnant friend currently has my books. I have a friend who keeps her research stuff online, I will see if she has some links I can pass on. But I can certainly recommend The Thinking Woman’s Guide To A Better Birth as my favorite pregnancy book to pass around.